'I Was Lied to': A Nightmare Trip on TX Guv's Bus Sideshow
Evarist Meléndez has not had a particularly relaxing summer.
Beginning last month, the 30-year-old and eight other men left their home country of Venezuela to seek asylum in the United States. That meant crossing Colombia’s Gulf of Urabá to the Darién Gap, a perilous, often deadly stretch of rainforest, mountains, and jungle that divides Central and South America. They traveled by motorcycle, car, train, and foot. They spent seven days walking in the jungle, made their way through Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and eventually arrived at the Río Grande, in México, where they swam through rip currents to get to Texas.
But rather than finding relief when he had finally made it, Meléndez said, arriving in Texas led him down a fresh path of frustration, treachery, and downright fear. And when he spoke with The Daily Beast around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, sitting inside the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, he was furious.
After all, New York City was not where he wanted to go, and not where he thought he would end up. But a nakedly political scheme by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to bus migrants from the border to so-called sanctuary cities like New York—and thus somehow expose the Biden administration’s border policies—left him destitute.
“We were told that there would be voluntary stops, but we passed through Virginia and the bus didn’t stop,” Meléndez told The Daily Beast in Spanish, explaining that he had wanted to go to Richmond, where his cousins live and were expecting him.
“I was lied to,” he added, before opining: “They even said the train ticket from here to Virginia would be $17. Now, here, I’m told that there’s no train to head over there; others tell me the bus costs $80. Now I’m in a worse place than I was before. I feel cheated.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-governor-greg-abbotts-bus-sideshow-sends-venezuelan-man-bound-for-virginia-to-new-york-city?ref=home
I probably need to go to confession for the homicidal thoughts I'm having today.
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... and pushed out. Maybe put Greg Abbott on a non-stop bus to Colombia? That would be appropriate.
